tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-231966702011-12-31T14:58:40.151-05:00Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comBlogger11061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-41129719795619764152009-11-06T07:53:00.004-05:002010-04-25T10:10:34.604-04:00

I've started a new blog. You can read it by clicking HERE. Adjust your bookmarks accordingly.

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Today marks the debut of "They Shoot Porn Stars, Don't They?," a text-and-photo essay about the adult movie industry and the recession.Originally, I wrote it for a publication, but I subsequently pulled it. When no other publication expressed an interest in publishing it, I decided to self-publish it.The site was designed and illustrated by the talented Chris Bishop, who created the infamous

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I'm going to take a break from blogging for a while. If you would like to follow my activities, you can do so by way of my Twitter.

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Artist Molly Peck bid on and won my Significant Object story. This is a photo of the Significant Object at its new home. If stories are children looking for adoption, this one has a happy ending.

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At 12:01 p.m., Special Agent Xerxes Xavier Jr., 34, begins to rise from behind his cluttered desk in his cramped and overcrowded office inside the J. Edgar Hoover Building at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, pushing the metal chair away from himself, and the green vinyl seat cushion lets out a thin hisssss! from the depression that he has left behind. -- the first line of my novel, Nothing Is Real but

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If you've read this blog before, you know that I wrote a story for Significant Objects. Created by my friend Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn, the project seeks to find out exactly how we construct value. Writers, such as the one whose words you are reading now, are asked if they're interested in participating. If they agree, they are given a series of objects from which to choose. Then, they are

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I took these photographs of adult film actress Tori Black on April 10, 2009, between 3:26:18 PST and 3:28:27 PST in Canoga Park, California. The final choice was #6. People seem to respond positively to the juxtaposition of Tori and the faces on the wall next to her in it. None of the images are altered by cropping or adjusting levels. The only adjustment made is size for uploading. Looking back

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For the last couple weeks, I was guestblogging on Boing Boing, which was awesome and terrific and great. Thank you so much to Xeni for inviting me, and thank you to Cory, Pesco, and Mark for allowing me to join in the fun. It was my second time, and it really is such a great time. When you do it, you find out how free and loose and interesting the entire process is, and for anyone who spends a

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You know when Rick James says: "Cocaine is a hell of a drug"?That's how this week was.It was a hell of a week.

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I put together a mini-photo essay about the Valley on Boing Boing. I took these photos on the set of an adult movie in the San Fernando Valley this April. It was April 10th, to be exact. Which is my birthday. Why I was on the set of an adult movie on my birthday is another story altogether. The story of my life. Read it.

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Bidding is nearing a close on my entry to the Significant Objects project. Read more about the project here. Each writer, Rob explained, would choose from a variety of "junk" objects bought by the curators at garage sales and thrift stores. A smiling mug. A Sanka ashtray. A JFK bust. Then, we would write a short story about the object. Whatever we liked. A fiction. Read my story and see my object

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Here are some emails that I have gotten as of late. You send them. I publish them.Regarding "Letters from Johns": I know the blog is now closed, but I just wanted to say that its something that really touched me. I've been on the Internet pretty much since its been around and it seems so rare to find actual, touching stories like those that are on there. I've always felt like the Internet could

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There are a few things that have been popular on this site over the last year or so. Since Boing Boing traffic, where I continue to guestblog this week, continues to pound the site, I thought I would point you to them."To the Max": Watching Little's work is less like watching a porn movie than it is akin to witnessing a vivisection. On the screen, Hardcore bends over the female bodies before him,

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Is this a significant object? I wrote a story about this pin as part of a project. Now, you can win the story and the pin on eBay. A talented, creative writer invents a story about an object. Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should -- according to our hypothesis -- acquire not merely subjective but objective value. How to test our theory? Via eBay! Read all about it here

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Over on the mothership that is Boing Boing, where I am guestblogging, I interviewed Sarah May Scott.SB: Are you a cyborg?SS: I am not a cyborg, but I am getting closer and closer to being a terminator. My back is already full of titanium, and I've got a radio-controlled device in my abdomen that feeds medication into my spinal canal. If the trials go well, I hope to get my chance at being the

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My gracious, there are a lot of Boing Boing readers coming through here. A bit like coming home to find someone riffling through your underwear drawer! Thank the Lord I threw out those granny panties.Anyway.I am sure none of you know who I am. I mean, I don't even know who I am. I am a writer. Sometimes, I write journalism -- or should I say "journalism." There are links to some stories that I've

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Yeah, hey! So, welcome if you are coming here from Boing Boing, where I am guestblogging. This is my blog. Also, I write articles. You can find some of them around here. And I take photos. And I also have a Twitter. If I weren't so lazy, I'd link to some of those, but they're in the sidebars, you know?Today on Boing Boing, I blogged about the e-wasteland, a Michael Jackson memorial apartment, and

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The last week has kind of sucked balls, but tomorrow I'll be starting my second guestblogging stint on Boing Boing. Regarding this matter, I would say that I am very excited, wonderful delighted, and truly happy.Guestblogging on Boing Boing is one of the most fun things I've ever done because a) you get to do whatever you want, b) it allows you to focus on the wonderful things, and c) no one

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Here are some photos I've taken since the beginning of the year. There are more here. Have a happy 4th!

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Night before last, I received an email from Molly Peck, a New York-based artist. The subject header read, "Susannah Breslin is happy," which definitely got my attention, as I am having a hell of a week. In any case, there was an image attached to it, the one you see here, which is a painting that Molly made. The source material is here, and, yes, that's me. Molly, whom I didn't really know

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The other day, I wrote a post about GG Allin after I saw a documentary by Todd Phillips about GG, "Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies," which is floating around because Phillips directed "The Hangover," which is a pretty popular movie this summer. Afterward, I got an email from Alex Godfrey, a London-based journalist, who, years ago, worked for Hotdog, a UK-based magazine that I wrote a few

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This is a situation in flux, so if things change, well, fuck it, chalk it up to transparency. Lots of people, most of whom you can find links to here, have been talking about whether or not one should write for free. Mostly, I agree with Doree, who says--Oh, shit. I guess it wasn't her. Well, whomever said most of the time you shouldn't, but some of the time you should, I agree with that

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[The content of this post is particularly graphic in ways somewhat more vulgar than usual. So, if you are a) a gentle soul, b) eating, or c) easily excitable, you may do best to click elsewhere. If not, read on.]Last weekend, I watched "Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies," which Pitchfork is playing because the director, Todd Phillips, directed "The Hangover," which is, like, the hit movie

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"You know, madness is a lot like gravity ... sometimes all you need is a little push." -- The Joker

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Once upon a time, I used to teach English to freshmen in college. Now, not so much. Yesterday, I got an email from a former student of mine. It was very kind. Which was very nice.After I posted my letter to a young writer, I was sort of surprised by the reaction. Like most of what I post on this blog, it was written on the spur of the moment, with little forethought. It certainly drew some strong

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Graham Roumieu is one funny fuck. And I mean that in the sense of like, you know, "He's a funny fucker!" Not, like, "I slept with him, and he is into some weird shit." Because I have not. Although, you know, because of that, I cannot speak to his personal sexual proclivities, which I'm sure he appreciates me speculating upon, or, really, not speculating upon, on my blog.Anyway.He's on Twitter,

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One of my dearest pals is someone you probably know: Xeni Jardin. She is a super-great time. Recently, she asked me if I would be interested in contributing to a new Boing Boing featurette, and of course I said yes.As you'll see on Boing Boing, Xeni has announced the beauteous makeover and relocation of Boing Boing Video. It features the latest BBtv episodes on a "big fat 962 pixel doublewide,

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From something I wrote:In the late 19th century, California state senator Charles Maclay stood atop the Cahuenga Pass that runs between Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley and of the pastoral valley sprawling before him proclaimed: “This is the Garden of Eden!” Nowadays, conquistadores Californianos, grazing cattle, and sheltering Oaks have been replaced by depressed suburban sprawl: “FOR SALE”

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As a species, we are not good at moderation. We manage to pervert all good things. We turn food into an obesity problem. We turn sex into a perversity problem. We turn shelter into McMansions. But when the chips are down, this is a real tool that is very, very valuable. And it’s the reason there’s so damn many of us on the planet. I do not personally approve of war. I think war is to be avoided

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Yesterday, I received this email from a young writer seeking guidance. Hello Ms. Breslin-My name is David, and I've been reading your blog "Reverse Cowgirl." I'm a young (24) aspiring writer, and by aspiring I mean, hoping to someday be reimbursed my for contributions. I don't mean to bore you, but I'm intrigued by your style and topics, and would like to know more about how you forged your

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Find yourself sitting around in book clubs, feeling like a fool? Don't know much about Foucault except some feces-related anecdotes? Wonder why everyone has read Ulysses, and you haven't, and now you are sorry, aren't you? If you were too poor, or, like, whatever to go to grad school, here's how to sound smart while people in your proximity have polysyllabic conversations about books you haven't

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Earlier today, on Twitter, I visited Douglas Clark's Twitter feed, and then clicked on his website link, which took me to his Flickr account. I knew right away what I was looking at--photos of working girls--but the context was enigmatic. Who had taken these photos? How? Why? Their frankness reminded me of Philip-Lorca diCorcia's street work and their happenstance of Merry Alpern's Dirty Windows.

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1. Strangle Girl2. "My weird obsession with armour might have come from the Surrealists."3. "More time to think about Susie."4. "[Ulysses is] a turgid welter of pornography (the rudest schoolboy kind)."5. Marilyn Minter6. Cunts7. The new 158. "But mostly I am thinking about that girl, and what she is doing now, and whose advertising account she is working on, or what yoga class she is taking, or

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This is a page from BREAKDOWNS by Art Spiegelman, an oversized, hardbound, beautiful reprint of some of Spiegelman's older work accompanied by a blistering, riveting introduction, part of which you see here.The page is a compilation of a series of sketches that Spiegelman made in 1972 while living in San Francisco. His mother, a Holocaust survivor, had killed herself in 1968. "She left no note,"

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1. If you think, "I'll take a picture of that later," sometimes it's not there when you get back.2. If you run after people and ask them if you can take a picture of them, sometimes they say yes.3. If you sit in the street trying to get a photo of your rims, for reasons you won't be able to explain later, and do so unsuccessfully, you may not get run over by passing cars.4. If you go down by the

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Pandora’s box has been opened. The Internet did that. There’s no going back. -- Pornographer, the Valley, 4/10/09 [Image via Ashley Benigno]

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I've posted a defense of sorts regarding the Playboy.com microscandal over Guy Cimbalo's "hate fuck" piece that was subsequently removed by the site. "Yesterday, Playboy.com posted a provocative story: 'So Right It's Wrong.' The piece was written by Guy Cimbalo, and its premise was to target those conservative women that he would like to, as he put it, 'hate fuck.' But if you click on that

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Last weekend, I watched "The Girlfriend Experience," and, I'm surprised to say, I loved it. Really loved it. I'd read a lot of negative reviews and heard from people I knew who had seen it that it was cold and remote and not so good, but I thought it was glorious. First and foremost, I loved that it was terrifically beautiful. Here is an audio slideshow in which Soderbergh talks about using

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Happy Friday! If Friday were a day, I'd marry it. Sadly, it is not.This week on Double X, I covered women as meat, the pornography of war, and Bill Clinton douchebaggery.On The Frisky, I wrote about the sequel to "The Girlfriend Experience": "The Boyfriend Experience."And I tweeted.Are you happy? Are you really? Are you looking for your happy ending? Find it. This weekend.

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Hi Susannah,Just wanted to extend a quick thanks for linking up to the Colliding Particles videos. I just watched them all. These are the kind of people that help me keep some hope in humans. I took my son to the open house at JPL in Pasadena this year and got myself involved in conversations with a couple different engineers there. I'm not sure how to explain the energy I feel when I'm around

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I found these videos a few weeks ago: "Colliding Particles." They are must-watchable. I've watched them repeatedly since. They're about the, well, men who are working on the Large Hadron Collider.I love the series for a lot of reasons. Because they're beautiful. Because they're brilliant. Because they're funny. Because they make something terrifically abstract terribly real, something intensely

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Before I went to Los Angeles, I bought a new camera. It's a Canon Rebel XSi, and, yeah, it's a sexy motherfucker. Don't hate me because my camera's fly. I did a fair amount of research before I got it, and I chose this one because it's wasn't your average point-and-shoot, but it wasn't some unwieldy monster either. I got the average lens with it, and the camera bag that doesn't beg for the entire

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Can't get enough of me? I know I can. Here's some other claptrap I vomited elsewhere this week.On Double X, I got excited about a soldier in pink underpants, sang the praises of Bunny May, and invented the penis diaries.On The Frisky, I reverted back to my usual coprophagy-oriented ways, made more underwear jokes, and whined about Jezebel.I took a photo a day.And you can find me, as ever, on

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Now I'll die and I'll tell you: what? The biggest regret of my life: I let my love go ... There was this time when I was in Los Angeles, and it was very early, and I was up, because it was still early in the trip, and the time in my mind hadn't changed yet, not that it did, not that it has from when it did, and I was driving on the east side, down Los Feliz Boulevard, a street named for the

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For today's Double X post, I wrote about blogger Sarah Scott. From her "Story of the Scar": I struggle up to the summit and begin the mile-long downhill that ends with a 90-degree turn that takes you back to town. Only I don't make the turn, and the world goes black for how long I have no idea. I don't remember if the EMT woke me up, or I just came too on my own, but I remember looking down at my

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-85692285350047048042009-05-19T16:16:00.006-04:002009-05-19T16:27:55.916-04:00

Hello, Lots of things have happened in my life since the last time I wrote/read you, some related to sex but I think that's not important for the moment. I haven't even had time to read blogs but I went back to my favorites and found some websites, yours obviously was there. So I visited your blog, searching for what I have found before in it, and I couldn't. I tried reading again what I read the

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-66566291957475772772009-05-18T07:22:00.007-04:002009-05-18T07:35:05.657-04:00

It seems I've launched a new project. I'm going to be doing "A Photo a Day." Which is pretty self-explanatory.I started talking photographs in around 2001, as I've written here before, when Nerve was a print magazine, and I was covering some bukkake shoot in the Valley, and they asked me would I bring a camera along. I borrowed a point-and-shoot that belonged to my boyfriend-at-the-time, and that

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Well, when I wrote my first post on Double X, I really didn't expect a mini-shitstorm to come of it. Frankly, I didn't think I was saying much I, or others, hadn't said before. I really thought most people were kind of, you know, over it. Apparently, the "feminist" blogs didn't like what I wrote, among them Bitch, Feministe, and Feministing. The comments are hilarious, if you have the time. In

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Scenes from my life on the set of the latest installment of "Fuck Machines." Or was it "Fucking Machines"? I think it was "Fuck Machines 6." Porn Valley is nothing if not complicated. More here.

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-49426756609104603232009-05-13T16:14:00.008-04:002009-05-13T16:40:42.839-04:00

Question #1: Hey Susannah Breslin-I've read your website since way back when it had, I think, a different name. I'm a filmmaker and am always thinking about making a movie about porn. There's gotta be another one besides BOOGIE NIGHTS (that's good). Probably other folks have contacted you about your book and "movies", but if you're out in Los Angeles again maybe we can grab a cup of coffee. I get

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-54790907286759955262009-05-12T17:46:00.007-04:002009-05-12T18:03:07.107-04:00

So, a long time ago now, like, last fall, a lovely person who is named Xeni Jardin sent a lovely person who is Hanna Rosin in my direction. Miss Hanna was in the process of co-creating a site that wouldn't launch until the following spring -- egads! who could wait? -- that would be a spinoff of Slate, and for the ladies. Because life is sometimes awesome, Hanna liked me, and they decided to take

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You know your writing career is really in the toilet when you're debating whether or not to put the anecdote about the sperm omelette at the beginning or at the end. Sometimes, it's difficult to write when you want to throw up at your own product. Some days, it's a miracle you don't chop off your own head."You are a miracle!"Yeah, so writing this story for the soon-to-be-launched Double X is

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-86070855249226665852009-05-08T21:03:00.013-04:002009-05-08T23:51:14.477-04:00

Previously, I've written here about the best porn movie I've ever seen, which is, of course, the only good porn movie ever made, which is, obviously, "The Operation," which is great for many reasons, most significantly because it allows you to see inside of other people.Over the years, I have seen a great many porn movies. For a time, I had it stockpiled everywhere, because people kept giving it

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-14029869798453408632009-05-07T16:29:00.005-04:002009-05-07T16:47:03.678-04:00

I picked up a copy of Rolling Stone because someone asked me if I'd read the Sasha Grey profile in it, and I hadn't, but now I have. I feel like America has reached some kind of deep, profound moral nadir when even porn stories are boring.It's so ... timid. As if the only thing left to do once porn has gone mainstream (ha-ha, kidding!) is to just give into it and pop some Ambien and file a story

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-83380185796053352492009-05-06T16:14:00.007-04:002009-05-06T16:41:21.382-04:00

I've blogged Thomas Allen's book art before, but this was worth a revisit. [via Boing Boing].What I'm blogging elsewhere ... On Slate, "John Edwards, Sex Victim?" and on The Frisky, "That’s Vaginal!" Stay classy, Susannah.What I'm working on here ... A profile of the adult movie industry for Double X and revising my novel set in the adult movie industry, Nothing Is Real but the Girl.Quote of the

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-91457308204754209182009-05-05T18:06:00.007-04:002009-05-05T18:25:08.349-04:00

More shots I took in Porn Valley. Three ways of looking at a porn star. Location: Woodland Hills. Million-dollar mansion on the top of a hill with a 360-degree view of the Valley at your feet. They call these photographs pretty girl shots. The set photographer took the girl into the backyard. Near a fountain painted so the water looked bright blue. The green grass was lined with brilliant,

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-64499163246567204412009-05-04T17:05:00.006-04:002009-05-04T17:25:34.004-04:00

Every once in a while, I get an email from a former merchant seaman. For me, it's the Valley. For him, it's the sea. You can read his first email here. You can read his second email here. And you can read his third email here. So, like, I send you these notes and tell you to leave the Valley behind you.  But it would be a lie to say I am not jealous of you for returning to the Valley for a visit

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-17795034040670177752009-05-01T13:31:00.016-04:002009-05-01T15:45:10.896-04:00

Last weekend, I got back to revising my novel, for the first time since I got back from Los Angeles, prior to which I had finished writing it, although now it needs revisions. During that time, I had been to DC and LA, so I wrote a new chapter for the book, a preface, which is set in DC. I had my character walk the same way I'd walked, exiting the FBI's Brutalist headquarters, passing the

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-78199286320258316992009-04-30T16:26:00.016-04:002009-04-30T21:37:54.955-04:00

This is my favorite shot from the photos I took in the Valley when I was there a couple weeks ago for a story. It was one of about 150 I took that day, which was, coincidentally, my birthday, and most of which were, well, pretty shitty, although there were some that were OK. I was out of practice. I have this thing where I don't crop or manipulate the image after I take it, because I want it to

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-48268206027761409052009-04-29T10:21:00.004-04:002009-04-29T10:30:45.400-04:00

The always-light-years-ahead-forward-thinking SHOWStudio is livestreaming and tweeting an amazing, eye-popping photo shoot inspired by the erotic pop perversities of Peter Saville."As backdrop to an editorial story for July 2009 Wallpaper* magazine, Peter Saville's febrile imagination constructs an imaginary 'Erotic House' of Pop perversity, sexualising an entire post-modern environment and

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-79211382502050903662009-04-28T17:21:00.010-04:002009-04-28T18:10:02.724-04:00

There's an interesting profile of Gay Talese and wife Nan in the latest issue of New York: "A Nonfiction Marriage." While the premise of the piece is to focus on Talese's work in progress, a book about his marriage, it focuses a fair amount of its attentions on Talese's controversial-at-the-time study of sex in America, Thy Neighbor's Wife, which is being republished this month.Gasp, faint,

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-26623612265343047872009-04-27T17:35:00.007-04:002009-04-27T17:52:22.457-04:00

I took this photo of myself last night, right after I came home, less than an hour after I won top honors at the Miss Douchebag 2009 pageant. It was simply an amazing night, a true honor. If only I had been able to fit the trophy through the front door. Thankfully, I had the strength of mind to capture my image in the bathroom mirror, but a few feet from the toilet. This is the first photo of

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-27625854245021402032009-04-24T10:21:00.003-04:002009-04-24T10:25:27.413-04:00

Do you know that I'm on Twitter?It's true.I am.Exciting.If you really can't get enough of me -- and, really, who can? -- feel free to follow me on Twitter, where I post random thoughts, scintillating links, and brilliant blog-to-book ideas.

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-16212282671647757502009-04-23T17:18:00.008-04:002009-04-23T17:42:13.059-04:00

On my last day in Los Angeles, I drove this crazy route. I had time to kill before I took the red-eye home. I drove from Hollywood, all the way up the 5, to a place called Kagel Canyon, all the way up to the top of the canyon, past the cemetery, to what seemed like the bottom of the sky, where I turned around, and I could see everything, for miles and miles, the valley forever and ever, it

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-83100218235310826702009-04-22T10:17:00.004-04:002009-04-22T10:24:11.578-04:00

Deeply fucking amusing quote from a frequently fawning, generally dull follow-me-around profile of Spitzer, here on the subject of, you know, that woman: Did he know what the risk was?"Yes."He was silent for a moment and then, without further prompting, offered an explanation: "I'm not going to say anything that … should be thought to be an excuse for anything. But there's got to be some element

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-69246256689970030352009-04-21T15:49:00.004-04:002009-04-21T15:52:56.407-04:00

Really love this new fashion film by Steven Klein, "Clorox Blue," which just premiered online. Although, and maybe it's too much time spent on porn sets too recently, but I guess I was disappointed it was so soft-core, relying so heavily on framing, innuendo, and overtones.If you're going to go high-end fucking in a toilet, why not go hardcore?

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-7040284498133787582009-04-20T09:07:00.003-04:002009-04-20T09:15:23.332-04:00

I did a new Q&A for the Daily Beast, this time with stripper-turned-Army wife Lily Burana. While driving with you in the car, your husband had a flashback during which he thought he was back in Iraq. What was that like?The first thing you need to know about my husband is you see him as someone very capable and utterly sane. I depend on my husband as reliable and centered, and to see him become a

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-40234868847037637492009-04-17T22:39:00.016-04:002009-04-17T23:38:30.104-04:00

When I was in Los Angeles, Porn Valley to be exact, working on a story, for Double X, I came across another story, a real story, a big story, the kind of story that turns you into a real reporter. Now, at least thus far, I can't place that story. Or, I should say, I haven't placed it yet. It's about violence, and pornography, and politics. It's a grownup story, and comes with its own set of

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-16092579143658247002009-04-16T13:48:00.006-04:002009-04-16T13:59:02.674-04:00

This is the battery pack of the set photographer on one of the adult movie sets I was on. The sticker is for "Black Devil Doll," which appears to be a black "Chucky." It reads: "AND IF YOU THINK YOU'RE READY FOR HIM, THINK AGAIN, BITCH!"

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-20397750660955217112009-04-15T12:31:00.007-04:002009-04-15T13:42:33.851-04:00

My favorite part of being back in Porn Valley was taking photographs. That was the part that made me happy. Sometimes, I think I would like to stop writing and just take photographs, but I don't know if I'm any good at it, which is a silly reason not to go after something, but maybe when you were raised by someone who says things like, "Wishes aren't reality," things can get complicated on the

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-18728209663250456912009-04-14T07:29:00.003-04:002009-04-14T07:37:15.071-04:00

Now that I've returned from Porn Valley, the great debate arises. From here, do I go back to LA, back to the Valley, or do I move on, move to NYC? Last night, I thought I knew. I had decided. At one point, I re-read an email that was sent to me last fall by a merchant seaman who understands this dilemma. "But, I noticed a trend in that people who go to sea beyond a certain time stay at sea. They

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-44372578975011179522009-04-13T17:34:00.003-04:002009-04-13T17:41:40.308-04:00

"When I was here, I wanted to be there. When I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle." -- "Apocalypse Now"

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-13103756871043021172009-04-10T23:12:00.001-04:002009-04-11T13:17:01.225-04:00

In the Valley, kept forgetting it was my birthday, more here.

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-26717165681294641772009-04-09T23:41:00.002-04:002009-04-10T13:26:17.043-04:00

On the set of "Fuck Machines 6," LAPD-emblazoned ghetto bird circles over 360-degree views of the Valley, the girl on a swing with the engine whirring, and the director cries: "It's like watching a fish tank!"

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Before I got here, I thought I would be able to write about this story as it was unfolding. Now, I'm not so sure. Instead, what keeps going through my mind is this line from an email I once received. It was from a merchant seaman."The longer I spent away from the sea-going community, the more I realize how hard I had gotten. How wounded I was by what I saw and heard. How damaged I was becoming.

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-9240872736577724442009-04-07T22:04:00.004-04:002009-04-08T10:10:18.584-04:00

Mark Kernes, senior editor at Adult Video News, the New York Times of Porn Valley, looks at his collection of 3D pornographic photographs through a paper viewfinder in his Chatsworth office.

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-78512088441385302902009-04-06T23:39:00.006-04:002009-04-06T23:51:43.892-04:00

Frenetic, frantic, all that. Flew across the country, drove across the city, pulled into the valet of the hotel in Hollywood, and there was Ron Jeremy. Like fate, perverted.Sitting on the 10th floor in between time zones, the city spills out in the dark with a million scattered lights, and I wish I'd never left. I fall in love all over again walking the boulevard, from the crazy old lady in

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-53052484702488549902009-04-03T13:24:00.003-04:002009-04-03T13:37:21.934-04:00

Next time we meet, I'll be in Hollywood.No more spotlights coming down from heavenIt's a goodbye, it's curtains double timeNot even out of my dressAnd already my voice is fadingGoodbye my dears and intoThe big sleepBye for now.

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-19737704838451835472009-04-02T17:36:00.002-04:002009-04-02T17:41:05.673-04:00

It's the movie poster for Steven Soderbergh's "The Girlfriend Experience," starring Sasha Grey. I can't wait to see it. If you're looking for the Sasha Grey American Apparel ad, it's here.

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-13682246079570929232009-04-01T17:42:00.010-04:002009-04-01T18:29:57.544-04:00

I can't tell if this is a joke or not, it being April 1 and all, but I'm going to take it at face value: "Why Sex Positivity Is Bad for Feminism."As I have discussed here previously, I loathe the whole "sex positivity" movement. I mean, really? It even sounds retarded. Sex positive? What's that? It sounds wildly redundant. Isn't sex, like, fundamentally, a positive? Like, get laid, high five, as

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-58880374803476540182009-03-31T17:32:00.016-04:002009-03-31T18:05:26.774-04:00

I've had four literary agents in four years. I guess that's something I'm supposed to be ashamed of? Or something.When I lived in LA, I never had an agent, but that was then, and this is now. You know, it's just so hard to compete with people getting book deals when their books are filled with photographs of loose meat. The whole point of agenting, it seems to me, is to take whatever the person

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-70365033660335507612009-03-30T18:11:00.007-04:002009-03-30T18:59:58.787-04:00

God, I wish I had a fucking cigarette. Why did I quit? I miss you.In 1998, I moved to Los Angeles, and over the following five years I wrote about a lot of things, and one of the things that I wrote about was the adult movie industry. It was a very interesting time in the Valley, because Clinton's "screw that" attitude towards obscenity prosecutions and the increased competition presented by

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-56376023043571143822009-03-27T12:50:00.003-04:002009-03-27T13:15:45.678-04:00

TGIF. That is all. Now, we will proceed.This week on Slate's Double X, I wrote about the Spitzers, Monica Lewinsky, and Neil LaBute.At the Frisky, I covered banana rolls, Star Trek porn, and studs. Everything else went to Twitter or Tumblr. Have a great weekend, because that's what great weekends imply.

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-72504711533773541782009-03-26T17:48:00.005-04:002009-03-27T13:28:18.770-04:00

I love this. Marilyn Minter's "Green Pink Caviar." [via Siege]

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-90044306281895011962009-03-25T19:09:00.003-04:002009-03-25T19:12:34.660-04:00

"Porn sleeps for no one." -- porn director, email. [Image: Nevver]

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-14353661321935784412009-03-24T17:19:00.008-04:002009-03-24T17:35:10.008-04:00

Yesterday, I booked my trip to Los Angeles for the feature story I'm doing on the adult movie industry. I'll be there for about a week. I'm staying in Hollywood. I'll be driving back and forth over the Hollywood Hills, which divide the real Hollywood from the Other Hollywood, just like old times. I got a camera. I will be taking photographs, as well. At this stage, there is a lot of talking on

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-79285496011004670242009-03-23T11:57:00.005-04:002009-03-23T12:20:45.028-04:00

Hi there,I'm a brazilian journalist from São Paulo, Brazil, and this message is to congratulate you for your work, to tell you about a ficction work I am doing and to make a confession.First things, first. I mean, the confession. I have seen you lots of times on Playboy TV, at the Sexcetera program. And I have to tell you that you were one of my favorites reporters, along with Frank and Hoyt. In

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-25563983217564393362009-03-20T13:26:00.005-04:002009-03-20T13:36:26.910-04:00

Was it a miraculous week? I don't know. Time will tell. This week on Slate, I wrote about the Obama sex frenzy, the enduring attraction of Sarah Palin, and the critical condition in Congo.At the Frisky, I wrote about why you're fat, why you're in drag, and the world's tiniest brothel.I twittered about everything else.And, I'm out. Have a great weekend, because ... because ... because. Well, just

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-5549698439065800902009-03-19T17:27:00.004-04:002009-03-19T17:37:40.304-04:00

Is the Internet as full of wonderful things as it used to be? Sometimes, I wonder. Perhaps it's just become harder to find the wonders amidst all the chum. If you have a sick sense of humor like me, you, too, may enjoy this delightful comic. Found via the incomparable Nevver, Bernie Wrightson's 1984 "The Potty's Over" is wonderfully, obscenely, totally NSFW.

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-34245015051646257252009-03-18T10:17:00.011-04:002009-03-18T10:54:04.957-04:00

Yesterday, my "Sex Wars" piece ran on the Daily Beast. At Salon's Broadsheet, the always savvy Tracy Clark-Flory offered up her typically nuanced take. "Women might be able to make out with another girl at the bar, get spanked, called dirty and demeaning names -- but those things are hardly transgressive in our (pornographic) sexual culture. Is it OK for them to want to spank and demean a man?

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-57962504445321700752009-03-17T07:20:00.003-04:002009-03-17T07:26:55.414-04:00

My first piece for the Daily Beast, "Sex Wars: Sluts vs. Losers," in which I virtually mud wrestle with Grant Stoddard over the current state of the sexual double standard, is online."Over the years, the mainstreaming of pornography, the rise of the Internet, and the single-handed crotch-flashing efforts of Britney Spears have brought sex to the forefront of public discourse like never before.

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-53235760070070959532009-03-16T19:11:00.004-04:002009-03-16T19:39:18.854-04:00

Last week, I started chronicling the "story" of creating a feature story I'm doing on the adult movie industry. This is the first story I've done with this editor, so last Friday I shot her an email summarizing all that had come together thus far. I got an email back from her today asking a few questions and pointing out a few things to bear in mind.There are lots of different ways to do a story

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-71650405870831366252009-03-13T17:39:00.004-04:002009-03-13T17:50:44.272-04:00

Oh, FUCK YEAH! It's Friday. Everyone is happy. It's time for the week in review. Also, it's raining.On Slate's Double X, I spanked Julia Roberts, spanked Meghan McCain, and spanked lady bloggers.At the Frisky, I considered the gold digger, broke my heart, and batted my lashes.Plus, I'm on Tumblr and Twitter. Things are progressing well with the feature story in progress. I need to sleep more, do

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-85612602977439906632009-03-12T20:15:00.003-04:002009-03-12T20:48:22.236-04:00

In the last few days, I wrote about pitching the feature story I'm doing on the adult movie industry and the process of starting to assemble the story itself. Today, the engine started making chugging noises and the wheels began to turn. There were a lot of emails and telephone calls. So far, things have been going well. The important sources are proving interested, which is like having a gate

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-84195993000386025772009-03-11T15:09:00.011-04:002009-03-11T16:00:32.068-04:00

Yesterday, I talked about the first step in the process of writing my feature story about the adult industry. (I'll be blogging about it transparently here.) Now, the editor and I are on the same page in terms of the various details and ground rules. At this point, it's up to me to move forward relatively independently. The writer stands in the middle of the open road, wondering which way to go.

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-37159640488850650422009-03-10T18:54:00.007-04:002009-03-10T20:02:31.286-04:00

So, I thought I would try something new here. I'm going to be doing a feature story for a publication that will remain unnamed for the time being, but you can probably figure it out if you try. The story will take me to the San Fernando Valley, and it will focus on the adult movie industry. It has a more specific focus than that, but I will refrain from stating what that is at this time. That

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-80378975399433246982009-03-09T17:25:00.004-04:002009-03-09T17:36:22.854-04:00

I don't really have all that much to say, for two reasons. One is that all the random shit in my head or that I see or whatever goes here. The other is that I am sort of in this mini-limbo, while I wait for the final nod on this story it looks like I'll be doing. The story will take me back to the Valley. It's been a while. I'm just waiting.

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-36611603032967128222009-03-06T14:48:00.004-05:002009-03-06T15:15:22.338-05:00

OMG! This week totally sucked. And then it totally didn't. (Knock on wood.) Finally, I appear to have landed the story of my demented fantasies. Hopefully, it won't fall through. In any case, here's the rest.I blathered on about everything and the kitchen sink on Twitter.On Slate's XX Factor, I was cranky, I scored a front page link thanks to a misogynist beaver, and I was sort of feminist for,

Susannah Breslinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385459851471344397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196670.post-17682677162164581212009-03-05T15:21:00.009-05:002009-03-05T15:52:53.510-05:00

For his Paris runway show yesterday, designer Gareth Pugh elected to show a fashion film of his collection, rather than send real live models down the runway. You didn't have to be in Paris to see the movie, though. Nick Knight's SHOWStudio debuted the video online in tandem with the Paris screening attended by the fashion elite. But when the Times posted a shot of the Pugh video to their fashion

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Here is another excerpt from my novel, which is currently titled NOTHING IS REAL BUT THE GIRL, which is pretty fitting, seeing how it needs some rewriting, has no agent, and no publisher, all of which would indicate nothing about it is real except for me, and that, in and of itself, is, of course, questionable. Anyfuckingway, if you want to hire me for some kind of freelance gig, you should let

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